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by Sundiata » Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:23 pm
Sundiata wrote:The prayer I've done recently put into perspective what motivated the murder of Jesus Christ.
When things aren't going your way it's tempting to want a target for that aggression, an outlet. It's easy to take all of that anger and hate you feel about your life and just bully someone with it. That's what happened to Jesus Christ, he was an easy target for hateful people.
The people who persecuted him, who threw the book at him without mercy just wanted an easy target. That's why they accused him of crime, slandered him to no end, and finally brutalized him.
Unfortunately, these hateful people were oppressed themselves. They felt weak. To feel a sense of control, if only for a moment, they tortured an innocent man to death.
All it takes is hatred in your heart to be capable of killing your Messiah, killing your best friend. Our Messiah was a sitting duck. And the worst part about it is that we're not any better than these people.
Even as Christians, we're no better than the people who willingly tortured our Lord to death.
by The Archregimancy » Thu Jan 14, 2021 1:58 am
by Kowani » Thu Jan 14, 2021 2:11 am
by Sundiata » Thu Jan 14, 2021 2:14 am
by Luminesa » Thu Jan 14, 2021 2:19 am
Kowani wrote:The Archregimancy wrote:
So I imagine that, from an epistemological perspective, the three of you would argue that dialectical materialism is an inadequate model for addressing antidisestablishmentarianism in the post-medieval Catholic episcopate?
i am proud of myself for understanding all of these wordsLuminesa wrote:There's...not a lot of those countries remaining, but the correlation between abortion being legal and countries being violent seems a bit...slim?
Blanket illegality, no, but abortion being illegal under a large variety of circumstances is still pretty widespread (though enforcement varies by country)
Blue: Legal on request
Green: Risk to woman's life, to her health*, rape*, fetal impairment*, or socioeconomic factors
Yellow: Risk to woman's life, to her health*, rape, or fetal impairment
Pink: Risk to woman's life, to her health*, or fetal impairment
Brown: Risk to woman's life*, to her health*, or rape
Orange: Risk to woman's life or to her health
Red: Risk to woman's life
Black: Illegal with no exceptions
by Sundiata » Thu Jan 14, 2021 2:50 am
by Lost Memories » Thu Jan 14, 2021 2:56 am
Perhaps Catholics have earned the right to no distinction,
the privilege of blending seamlessly into the social and political landscape of the United States,
the freedom of having no special moral obligations. And what a wide, barren, featureless liberty it is.
by Sundiata » Thu Jan 14, 2021 3:03 am
Lost Memories wrote:Moving away from the talk about the past, this opinion piece about the recent time looked sombre.
"the pious Catholics who helped usher in the New Deal,“In a way that particularly confounded many liberal and left commentators, these men and women could be deeply Catholic, active, even militant, trade unionists, and reject much of secular, liberal thought, while they simultaneously supported core economic aspects of New Deal policy.”
by Sundiata » Thu Jan 14, 2021 3:06 am
by The Marlborough » Thu Jan 14, 2021 8:56 am
In the 1930s and 1940s, over 40% of children in the homes died before their first birthday, the commission found. But it found little evidence that politicians or the public were concerned about the children, despite the "appalling level of infant mortality".
by The Marlborough » Thu Jan 14, 2021 9:04 am
Sundiata wrote:But anyway, the marital sacrament is very deserving of our attention. I think that its proper promotion has the capacity to grow through our world like a mustard seed.
by The Marlborough » Thu Jan 14, 2021 9:08 am
by Sundiata » Thu Jan 14, 2021 10:36 am
The Marlborough wrote:Sundiata wrote:But anyway, the marital sacrament is very deserving of our attention. I think that its proper promotion has the capacity to grow through our world like a mustard seed.
Not sure mustard seeds is the imagery I'd use for marriage. Speaking as someone who lives in a province occupied by the mustard field menace, I can tell you it's not a stunning sight.
by Lost Memories » Thu Jan 14, 2021 1:46 pm
What is with the far right and an obsession with everyone else being pedophiles? Sounds like projection to me, especially since I was reading that Parler had to stop telling their users to post illegal pornography on multiple occasions.
It's kind of just the most vile thing you can accuse the other side of. Plus it makes for great marketing if you keep repeating that you are doing all this shit to "save the children". I mean who doesn't want to help children? It's a great tool to recruit people who haven't fallen for the cult yet.
Basically means that anyone who's against you is evil. Why don't you listen to Q? Do you want the pedophiles to win?
Because of a weird victim complex, that doesn't have any real ground. If you want to be fair, even celtic tribes destroyed each others temples in war and ravished each others gods whenever they wanted to. It's not like pagans had a HUGE religious tolerance for each other - look at what the romans or the incas did to the weaker cultures in their regions, religion was clearly a tool of power to them.
by Salus Maior » Thu Jan 14, 2021 2:17 pm
The Marlborough wrote:Actually I would say that something the RCC should really apologize for is the residential schools in Canada which Pope Francis has also refused to do. Especially considering he has apologized for other abuses that occurred in the past.
by Suriyanakhon » Thu Jan 14, 2021 2:24 pm
Lost Memories wrote:The pagan roman empire stopped being pagan, and became christian, so will any future pagan empire, be it the pagan american empire, the pagan european empire, or any other future pagan resurgence.
by Punished UMN » Thu Jan 14, 2021 2:30 pm
Salus Maior wrote:The Marlborough wrote:Actually I would say that something the RCC should really apologize for is the residential schools in Canada which Pope Francis has also refused to do. Especially considering he has apologized for other abuses that occurred in the past.
I don't really see the point in apologizing for every bad thing done. It's not as if making an official apology is going to actually change what happed, and the Catholic Church doesn't do things like that anymore anyway.
by Kowani » Thu Jan 14, 2021 2:31 pm
Lost Memories wrote:. Irreligion is in most cases just the popular cover for individual and personal cults.
by Punished UMN » Thu Jan 14, 2021 2:34 pm
by Nakena » Thu Jan 14, 2021 2:37 pm
Lost Memories wrote:The protestant christianity in the west is currently reverting back to tribal paganism. Both with the new protestants directly morphing into pagans, and the historical protestants losing members to pagan cults. Irreligion is in most cases just the popular cover for individual and personal cults.
Lost Memories wrote:The west has been trying to go back to tribal paganism ever since the enlightement, it isn't really a secret. It isn't a recent development, it's just that the social conformism about declaring to be christian without really believing, just for the social circle and personal opportunities which comes with it, has started to break up only during the sexual revolution in the 60s 70s.
by Kowani » Thu Jan 14, 2021 2:38 pm
Punished UMN wrote:Kowani wrote:Is it really so hard to believe that some people just don’t have a religion
It's not, and I think that LM is overstating his case, but I do think it's true that many irreligious people do end up creating some kind of replacement for religion, whether that be political ideology, an abstract code, or even a personality cult, and that many of these things are treated by their followers as holy in the sense of religious faith.
by Washington Resistance Army » Thu Jan 14, 2021 2:39 pm
Suriyanakhon wrote:Lost Memories wrote:The pagan roman empire stopped being pagan, and became christian, so will any future pagan empire, be it the pagan american empire, the pagan european empire, or any other future pagan resurgence.
That seems like a really weird prediction when non-Christians still exist.
by Suriyanakhon » Thu Jan 14, 2021 2:40 pm
Kowani wrote:Punished UMN wrote:It's not, and I think that LM is overstating his case, but I do think it's true that many irreligious people do end up creating some kind of replacement for religion, whether that be political ideology, an abstract code, or even a personality cult, and that many of these things are treated by their followers as holy in the sense of religious faith.
I mean, sure? But it’s not like those things exist as a replacement for religion, it’s just human psychology.
There are, after all, many religious people who fall into the same trap (if you can call it that)
Maybe on a social level, where those things provide the group identity that religion used to?
That might be a more accurate claim, I think
by Punished UMN » Thu Jan 14, 2021 2:41 pm
Kowani wrote:Punished UMN wrote:It's not, and I think that LM is overstating his case, but I do think it's true that many irreligious people do end up creating some kind of replacement for religion, whether that be political ideology, an abstract code, or even a personality cult, and that many of these things are treated by their followers as holy in the sense of religious faith.
I mean, sure? But it’s not like those things exist as a replacement for religion, it’s just human psychology.
There are, after all, many religious people who fall into the same trap (if you can call it that)
Maybe on a social level, where those things provide the group identity that religion used to?
That might be a more accurate claim, I think
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